Yes, it is true my many readers (who number less than my fingers), I have been neglecting my blogging duties during the Summer season. However, I think often about blogging and take many pictures - like this one about my new MN Lake Cabin pet It-Sam.

I discovered this exceedingly cute critter (just look at his little head-wings!) while drinking my first morning of MN Lake coffee and sitting in the "keep the bugs out" mesh enclosure built by my father-in-law to ward off the MN bird-bugs. As my first MN lake pet of 2008, I decided to name him Sam. However my mother-in-law commented that a more appropriate name would be "it" - thus the crafty name of It-Sam was agreed. Although similar in size to many of the local MN mosquitos, It-Sam is actually "some kind of big bug".

Sadly, it is likely that It-Sam passed away sometime last week, though we are confident that he lived a full fluttery life.